Team Lead DevOps Engineer

Are you a hands-on technical leader who enjoys guiding teams through complex, mission-critical environments while still shaping the technical direction? Do you want your work to directly support national security outcomes?

As a Team Lead, you’ll play a key specialist role within our Aerospace, Defence and Security account. This role blends functional team leadership with technical architecture responsibilities, sitting at the heart of our DevOps delivery. You’ll lead a skilled, multi-supplier delivery team, providing technical direction, prioritisation and support to ensure outcomes are delivered effectively and in line with customer methodologies.

You’ll act as a bridge between internal teams, customers and third-party partners, helping to balance risk, improve service quality and maintain system stability in a highly secure environment. This is a role for someone who enjoys influencing decisions, driving continuous improvement and working closely with stakeholders to improve user experience across complex systems.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading DevOps delivery and associated project work across the delivery team.
• Guiding and supporting the team by prioritising work and providing expert technical direction.
• Owning and maintaining low-level technical understanding and documentation of system configurations and interfaces.
• Supporting the Service Delivery Manager to ensure timely and cost-effective service delivery.
• Managing investigation, triage and resolution of incidents, changes and stories.
• Building strong relationships with customers and partners to influence decision-making and prioritisation.

• Experience leading technical teams and inspiring people to deliver strong business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of system and application architectures across complex environments.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.

• Experience working with on-premise infrastructure, Linux/Unix and cloud platforms.

• Knowledge of containerisation, microservices and automation technologies such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Ability to analyse user requirements and advise on scope and technical options.

It would be great if you had:

• Scripting experience.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust networking and secure-by-design principles.
• Experience integrating with existing systems and networks.
• Understanding of perimeter defences, anti-malware and IDPS concepts.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.